9 Egypt will become an empty wasteland. Then you will know that I am the Lord.“Because you said that the Nile is yours and you made it,
10 I am your enemy and the enemy of your Nile. I will make all of Egypt an empty wasteland, from the city of Migdol in the north to the city of Aswan in the south, all the way to the Ethiopian border.
11 No human being or animal will walk through it. For forty years nothing will live there.
12 I will make Egypt the most desolate country in the world. For forty years the cities of Egypt will lie in ruins, ruins worse than those of any other city. I will make the Egyptians refugees. They will flee to every country and live among other peoples.”
13 The Sovereign Lord says, “After forty years I will bring the Egyptians back from the nations where I have scattered them,
14 and I will let them live in southern Egypt, their original home. There they will be a weak kingdom,
15 the weakest kingdom of all, and they will never again rule other nations. I will make them so unimportant that they will not be able to bend any other nation to their will.